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Dear registered user,
Below you will find a few of this week's top stories, career
opportunities and events. For full coverage of the supercomputing
field, please visit: http://www.supercomputingonline.com .
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HP Names Dean of UIC, Prith Banerjee, as Director as Director of HP Labs
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HP has named Prith Banerjee, dean of the college of engineering at the
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), as senior vice president,
research, and director of HP Labs, effective Aug. 1. Banerjee will
report to Shane Robison, executive vice president and chief strategy
and technology officer. He replaces Richard H. Lampman, who is
retiring after 35 years of service with HP, including 25 years in HP
Labs. Lampman will remain at HP Labs through Banerjee’s starting date
to ensure an orderly transition.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13634
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Made in IBM Labs: 10 Chip Breakthroughs in 10 Years
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Today's announcement by IBM of a major breakthrough in chip design --
called 'airgap' -- bookends a decade of innovation from IBM Labs that
have transformed the IT industry with new materials and design
architectures to build smaller, more powerful and energy efficient
chips.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13635
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IBM Brings Nature to Computer Chip Manufacturing
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<b>First-ever manufacturing application of "self assembly" used to
create a vacuum -- the ultimate insulator -- around nanowires for
next-generation microprocessors:</b> IBM today announced the
first-ever application of a breakthrough self-assembling
nanotechnology to conventional chip manufacturing, borrowing a process
from nature to build the next generation computer chips.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13636
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ANSYS Delivers Record First Quarter Operating Results
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<b>Celebrates Major Milestone of One Year Anniversary of Fluent
Acquisition: Company Raises Full Year Outlook:</b> ANSYS, a global
innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize
product development processes, today announced a new Company record
for first quarter non-GAAP operating results.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13637
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Sun Expands Solaris 10 Powered Network.com Service to 24 Countries
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<b>Additional New Features Enable Secure Internet Access to Online
Data and Services Expanding The Power of Network.com:</b> Sun
Microsystems today announced wider international availability and
addition of new features to the Sun Grid Compute Utility available
from Network.com.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13638
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MSC.Software Signs a Source Code License, Distribution Agreement with nCode
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<b>Agreement Allows for Embedded Durability Technology in
SimEnterprise Product Suite:</b> MSC.Software Corporation, the leading
global provider of enterprise simulation solutions including
simulation software and services, has announced a source code license
and distribution agreement with nCode International, a leading
provider of computer-aided analysis (CAE) technologies and services
focused on product life performance and durability. This agreement
enables MSC.Software to better embed durability technology throughout
its product offerings including its SimEnterprise suite.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13639
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HP Licenses Technology to Create Nanoscale Electronic Devices
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HP has announced that it is beginning to reap returns from its 10-year
investment in nanoscale electronics with the licensing of technology
that could enable the fabrication of semiconductor chips significantly
more powerful than those available today.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13640
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CEI and RENCI Partner
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<b>EnSight licensed for use at RENCI’s six locations:</b>
Computational Engineering International (CEI) and the Renaissance
Computing Institute (RENCI) announced today a new partnership that
makes CEI’s EnSight, an industry-leading scientific visualization
software, available to RENCI’s staff and partners at its headquarters
and engagement facilities throughout North Carolina.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13641
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CFP for SC07 Disruptive Technologies Activity Released
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<b>CALL for <a
href="http://sc07.supercomputing.org/?pg=disrupttech.html"> Disruptive
Technology</a> Exhibit Proposals: SC07: 20th International Conference
for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,
November 12-16, 2007, Reno, Nevada:</b> First introduced at SC06 as
Exotic Technologies, Disruptive Technologies (DT) will return at SC07.
Generally speaking, a disruptive technology is a technological
innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing
dominant technology or product in the market. SUBMISSION SITE: <a
href="http://www.sc-submissions.org/">www.sc-submissions.org</a>
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13642
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LSU Center for Computation & Technology Appoints Chief Scientist
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<b>Former NASA researcher Thomas Sterling will be first in this
position:</b> The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, has
appointed Thomas Sterling as its first chief scientist. In this role,
Sterling will help lead the center’s research activities to develop
new initiatives in education and economic development.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13643
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Latin American Research Growth Extended through new EU agreement until 2008
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<b>RedCLARA network builds on strong foundation and announces
expansion plans:</b> Collaboration between scientists and researchers
in Latin America and their peers across the globe is to be continued
through funding and network expansion. Co-funding from the European
Union for the ALICE project, which is responsible for the RedCLARA
network, has been extended until 2008. Additionally, regional not for
profit organisation CLARA is expanding its role by increasing staff
and taking greater responsibility for the running and administration
of the network.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13644
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Locuz adds HPC & Storage to its Remote Managed Operations Business
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With over 30 HPC units designed-installed-managed across different
Industries, Locuz is the leading provider of services and solutions in
the HPC and related Storage Infrastructure space in India. Among the
implementations are clusters that are as big as 2TF over parallel file
access to 30TB of Storage; and the Industries include Life Sciences,
VLSI, Computational Chemistry, Material Science, Animation and Rich
Media (Render farm), Defense etc.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13645
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‘Grand Challenge’ science projects tap into supercomputing resources at LLNL
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s institutional “Grand
Challenge” scientific computing program has allocated 83.7 million CPU
hours to 17 research projects ranging from astrophysics, chemistry,
materials and biosciences to earthquake and climate simulation on
Laboratory supercomputers.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13646
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Arctic Ice Retreating More Quickly Than Computer Models Project
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Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than
projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new study
concludes. The research, by scientists at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado's National
Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), shows that the Arctic's ice cover is
retreating more rapidly than estimated by any of the 18 computer
models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in
preparing its 2007 assessments.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13647
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Cray Reports Q1 Results
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Cray reported first quarter revenues fell to $47.1 million from $48.5
million, although it shaved its net loss to $800,000, or a loss of 3
cents per share, compared to a loss of $5.3 million, or a loss of 24
cents a share in the first quarter of 2006.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13648
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Paremus, QuIC Partner to Deliver Distributed Financial Analytics Solution
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Paremus, developer of the distributed OSGi and SCA-based Infiniflow
service platform, and QuIC Financial Technologies Inc., a global
solutions provider of risk management, pricing and financial analytics
solutions, today announced a combined offering that provides financial
customers with a standards-based, highly scalable and resilient
distributed services platform for analytics solutions including
complex portfolio simulation, instrument pricing and modeling.
Paremus’ Infiniflow Enterprise Service Grid (ESG) has been integrated
with the QuIC Product Suite to provide an exceptionally fast grid
distribution solution.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13649
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Sir Alan Sugar unveils new High-Performance Computer Cluster
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<b>Viglen Computer Cluster Reigns Supreme at Queen Mary, University of
London:</b> Sir Alan Sugar, Chairman of Viglen Ltd, has unveiled a new
high-performance computer cluster at Queen Mary, University of London.
In the month that marks Sir Alan’s 23rd anniversary in the UK computer
market, Sir Alan opened the cluster – a high performance computing
suite which will play a leading role in international scientific
research – at the College’s Mile End campus.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13650
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Grid Engine 6.1 Announced
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<a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/">Grid Engine 6.1</a>
courtesy binaries are now ready for download. The courtesy binaries
are available at <a
href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/61downloads/download.html">its
Web site</a>.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13651
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TotalView Technologies Expands Sales Team to Meet Growing Demand
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TotalView Technologies, the world's leading provider of debugging and
analysis software solutions for the multi-core age, today announced
the expansion of its sales team with three new appointments. Brian
Bonenfant, senior federal accounts representative, Joseph Latosek,
commercial accounts representative and Mike Quinn, commercial accounts
representative, have joined the company.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13652
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SC07 Bandwidth Challenge - Call for Participation Announced
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SC07 Bandwidth Challenge Call for Participation has been announced.
This year the theme of the Bandwidth Challenge (BWC) is "End-to-End
Achievement -- Serving as a Model". Show your colleagues and the rest
of the world new ways to truly take advantage of high speed networks
by entering the Bandwidth Challenge. Please note, this year,
submissions are due earlier than in previous years. Entries should be
submitted by July 31, 2007. The SC07 Bandwidth Challenge submissions
website is open and can be found at: <a
href="http://www.sc-submissions.org">its Web site</a>.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13653
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RapidMind Platform v2.0 Enables Developers to Deliver HPC Applications
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<b>RapidMind Announces General Availability of Next Generation
Software Platform with Support for Cell/B.E. from IBM, and GPUs from
AMD and NVIDIA:</b> RapidMind Inc. today announced the general
availability of the RapidMind Platform v2.0. The RapidMind software
solution enables developers to more quickly and easily run
higher-performing applications that exploit the full capabilities of
multi-core processors, including Cell Broadband Engine' (Cell/B.E.)
and graphics processor units (GPUs). RapidMind v2.0 offers the widest
hardware and operating system support and broadest applicability in
enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC).
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13654
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EMC Launches Global Collaborative Research Network
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<b>New EMC Innovation Network to Harness Worldwide Tech Resources,
Accelerate Information Infrastructure Innovation:</b> EMC Corporation,
the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today
announced the formation of the new EMC Innovation Network. The global,
collaborative community including some of the world's brightest
technology minds comprises EMC research, advanced development
resources, university research partners and key customers that will
seek to drive the exploration, discovery and application of new
technologies that will shape the future of information infrastructure.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13655
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NetApp Announced Support for Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support Program
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Network Appliance today announced support for the Oracle Unbreakable
Linux Support Program, providing customers who use Oracle on NetApp
storage with reliable and available high-performance storage for Linux
grid environments. (Visit <a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/index.html">its Web
site</a> for information on Oracle Unbreakable Linux) Together, Oracle
Unbreakable Linux and NetApp data management solutions are able to
provide customers with lower total cost of ownership (TCO), reduced
complexity, and better management of their Linux grid through NetApp
virtualized storage and simplified data management.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13656
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Visual Numerics Libriaries Available for Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST Servers
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Visual Numerics, Inc., celebrating 36 years of producing advanced
numerical analysis and visualization software, announced today that
the IMSL C Numerical Library version 6.0 and IMSL Fortran Numerical
Library version 5.0 have been released for Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 500
series servers for high performance computing. Together, the IMSL
Numerical Libraries will leverage Fujitsu’s high performance servers
and development tools to provide an integrated, powerful development
environment for organizations to solve sophisticated computational and
data-intensive problems.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13657
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Germany's BSH Selects Altair's Advanced HyperWorks CAE Suite
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<b>Through simulation and optimization, advanced engineering software
tools help German white goods manufacturer bring innovative new
products to market.</b> Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global
provider of technology and services that strengthen client innovation
and decision-making, today announced that BSH, Germany, Western
Europe's number one domestic appliance manufacturer, has introduced
the HyperWorks suite into its product development process. Today's
domestic appliance industry has become truly high-tech, with product
innovations and development supported by advanced CAE software. BSH
develops its products in various company competency centers, including
a site in Traunreut, Germany, where primarily stoves, modular cooking
panel systems and ovens are developed and manufactured. The Traunreut
Product Development Simulation Department uses Altair HyperMesh,
HyperView and HyperGraph for their pre- and post-processing tasks and
employs Altair OptiStruct for optimizing their designs.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13658
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Linux Networx Announces Channel Partnership With Westwind Computer Products
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<b>Partnership Expands Linux Networx's Reach in Government High
Performance Computing Market:</b> Linux Networx, The Linux
Supercomputing company, today announced that Albuquerque, New
Mexico-based Westwind Computer Products, Inc. is now an authorized
reseller of the company's Linux Supersystems and related products and
services. Westwind Computer Products is a leading provider of
Information Technology (IT) solutions to the federal government, with
a special focus on serving the needs of the Department of Energy
(DOE). The partnership expands Linux Networx's ability to market its
performance tuned and production-ready Linux Supersystems to federal
government customers.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13659
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RedNeurons Announces Tensor MPU Cost-effective Peta-scale HPC Platform
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<b>RedNeurons’ releases their initial product, Tensor MPU2016,
designed to reduce the current cost per Giga-flop/sec for the largest
supercomputers.</b> RedNeurons (Shanghai) Information Technology Co.,
Ltd. announced today the completion of the Tensor MPU2016 High
Performance Embedded HPC technology demonstration and development
platform. RedNeurons’ technology plan is designed to reduce the
current cost per Giga-flop/sec for the largest supercomputers,
currently ranging between 500 to 1500 US dollars, to less than half
this amount before the end of 2009.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13660
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LITE Installs Third InterSense IS-900 Wireless Motion Tracking System
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<b>LITE's 3D Immersive Visualization Total Immersion System (TIS)
Features IS-900 Technology for Precise Tracking and Realistic
Interaction With Virtual Images for Industry and University
Research:</b> InterSense, Inc., a market leader in precision motion
tracking technology, today announced its custom-configured, IS-900
wireless motion tracking system has been installed in the 3D Immersive
Visualization Total Immersion System (TIS) at the Louisiana Immersive
Technologies Enterprise (LITE). This marks the third installation of
an IS-900 system within LITE. Founded through a partnership between
the State of Louisiana, the Lafayette Economic Development Authority
and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the $27 million,
70,000-square-foot LITE Center is the first autonomous data
visualization and supercomputing facility in the country, serving
industry, government and universities.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13661
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Harness the Power of High Performance Computing in the Public Sector
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<b>Event Date & Time: May 29, 2007, 9:15 - 16:00 <br />Event Location:
Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center <br />12012 Sunset Hills
Road, Reston VA 20190</b><p>The one day technical conference on High
Performance Computing (HPC) comprises sessions on Microsoft's Windows
Compute Cluster Server (WCCS) - a comprehensive HPC solution
surrounded by a broad ecosystem of partners, products and services to
maximize business value. The conference also features 2 separate
tracks for Developers and IT Professionals. These sessions will target
Developers, Architects, IT Professionals and technical managers, be
very much demonstration oriented, and will be delivered by Microsoft
executives with significant experience in High Performance Computing.
Registration Information: <a
href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032336786&culture=en-US">http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032336786&culture=en-US</a>
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13662
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Sun Sponsors First CommunityOne Event
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<b>Free One Day Developer Conference Focuses On Open Source and Web
Technologies,Solutions and Business Models:</b> Sun Microsystems,
today sponsored its new CommunityOne event at Moscone Center in San
Francisco. CommunityOne is a free, one-day event designed for open
source and web developers to gain detailed technical information on
free and open source projects.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13663
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Dell Joins Microsoft and Novell Collaboration
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<b>Dell responds to customer demand for greater interoperability and
intellectual property assurance between Windows and Linux.</b>
Microsoft Corp. and Novell have announced that Dell Inc. is the first
major systems provider to join the business collaboration that was
formed by Microsoft and Novell in response to customer demand for
greater interoperability and intellectual property (IP) assurance. As
part of the agreement, Dell will purchase SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
certificates from Microsoft and establish a services and marketing
program to migrate existing Linux users who are not Dell Linux
customers to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13664
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SDSC Helps Red Cross Reconnect Families after Kansas Tornados
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<b>Center Hosts Agency's "Safe and Well" Website:</b> More than 13,300
friends and family of those devastated by giant tornados last Friday
evening in southwestern Kansas checked the "Safe and Well" website, a
collaboration between the American Red Cross and the San Diego
Supercomputer Center. The free and secure website, hosted at SDSC in
the Center’s state-of-the-art machine room, lets residents impacted by
the tornados easily report their status as “safe and well,” allowing
loved ones to quickly search the list for news.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13665
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NetBeans Community Embraces Scripting with NetBeans IDE 6.0 Preview Release
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<b>Latest Release Improves Developer Productivity with Support for New
Desktop Technologies, Ruby Programming Language and GUI Builder:</b>
Sun Microsystems together with the NetBeans community, have announced
the availability of the NetBeans 6.0 Integrated Development
Environment (IDE) Preview release. NetBeans 6.0 IDE extends support
beyond Java and C/C++ by providing a rich set of features for the Ruby
and JavaScript dynamic scripting languages, and continues to enable
developer productivity with ease-of-use and support for the latest
Java Standards.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13666
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Infortrend Ships Lowest Cost-Per-Disk-Drive SAS Raid Arrays
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RAID storage expert Infortrend today unveiled a new line of Serial
Attached SCSI (SAS)-to-SATA-II subsystems, the EonStor (ES) A08S-G2130
and ES A12S-G2130 arrays that support up to eight or 12 drives,
respectively. These high performance SAS host subsystems incorporate
SAS wide ports and offer a combined throughput of 24Gb per second
(Gbps) transfer speed to provide improved reliability, scalability,
and availability compared to Ultra320 SCSI. Designed to use
cost-effective SATA drives, the systems allow storage managers to
continue to enjoy the significant cost benefits of SATA technology
while taking advantage of leading-edge SAS functionality.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13667
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Intivity Deploys High-performance Migration for HPC
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<b>Distributed software manages geographically disparate data
sharing.</b> Intivity Corporation announced at DICE Alliance 07 the
successful deployment of its file-based transparent data migration
solution in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13668
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Cartesian Gridspeed Launches Revolutionary Genomics Sequencing Software in US
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Cartesian Gridspeed, a New Zealand bioinformatics software developer,
will officially launch its SLIM Search product to the US market at the
BIO 2007 Convention in Boston.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13669
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Quantum Customer CERN Wins Computerworld's 'Best Practices in Storage' Award
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<b>European Organization For Nuclear Research Uses Quantum's StorNext
Software to Accelerate Research and Discovery Processes in Recounting
the Birth of Matter:</b> Quantum Corp. has announced that its
customer, European-based nuclear research organization CERN, was
awarded Computerworld's prestigious "Best Practices in Storage" Award
for Systems Implementation. The award honors CERN for its innovative
use of Quantum's StorNext software that enables the laboratory to
accelerate its research and discovery processes as it delves further
into the fundamental structures of the universe.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13670
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Research Team Makes Quantum Computing Progress
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NEC Corporation, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) have together
successfully demonstrated the world's first quantum bit (qubit)
circuit that can control the strength of coupling between qubits.
Technology achieving control of the coupling strength between qubits
is vital to the realization of a practical quantum computer, and has
been long awaited in the scientific field.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13671
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Achronix and Mentor Graphics Announce Joint Agreement
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Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, the multi-GHz programmable logic
company, today announced a long term technology partnership and OEM
agreement with Mentor Graphics Corporation. The agreement ensures
close collaboration between the two companies to provide a
comprehensive FPGA design environment, enabling developers to take
full advantage of Achronix high performance FPGAs.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13672
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QLogic SANbox 9000 Switches are FAST enough for Texas Memory Systems
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<b>Storage Manufacturer Texas Memory Systems Awards QLogic SANbox 9000
Series Switches its FAST (Fast Access Storage Tested)
Certification:</b>Texas Memory Systems today announced that it has
awarded its FAST (Fast Access Storage Tested) certification to the
QLogic SANbox 9000 Series Fibre Channel Director switches. The QLogic
SANbox 9000 Series is a new class of core switch that requires less
rack space, power and cooling than any other Director switch, at a
fraction of the cost. The SANbox 9000 Series can be deployed alongside
Texas Memory Systems’ RamSan solid state disks (SSD) to significantly
accelerate enterprise applications and critical databases.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13673
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HP Lifts Guidance for Second Quarter Earnings, Revenue
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HP today announced that it has raised its financial guidance for the
fiscal second quarter ended April 30. Based on preliminary data, HP
expects to announce on May 16 – when its second quarter results are
scheduled to be released – that it recorded revenue in the range of
$25.50 billion to $25.55 billion, non-GAAP diluted earnings per share
(EPS) in the range of $0.69 to $0.70, and GAAP EPS in the range of
$0.64 to $0.65. Non-GAAP diluted EPS estimates exclude after-tax costs
of approximately $0.05 per share, related primarily to the
amortization of purchased intangible assets.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13674
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LogicaCMG, Visual Numerics Partner to Deliver Customer Intelligence Management
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LogicaCMG Telecoms Products today announces its partnership with
Visual Numerics, a leading producer of advanced numerical analysis and
visualisation software, for the development of a unique and
state-of-the-art Customer Intelligence Management solution for mobile
operators. LogicaCMG recently announced the sale of its Telecoms
Products business to a consortium of private equity buyers, subject to
employee consultation and regulatory approval. Once the transaction
closes the Telecoms Products business will trade under the new brand,
<a href="http://www.acision.com">Acision</a>.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13675
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Mississippi State University Purchases New Academic License for CEI's EnSight
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Computational Engineering International (CEI) announced today that
Mississippi State University is the first institution to license the
company’s EnSight visualization software through its new and flexible
academic licensing options. The new pricing options provide qualified
academic institutions with an EnSight license for either a specific
course or for the entire campus. EnSight is an industry-leading
extreme visualization tool for the scientific and engineering
community, and is used by researchers worldwide in a wide variety of
industries and research areas.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13676
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Sun Java Real-Time System 2.0 Delivers Superior Predictability
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<b>Java Real-Time System 2.0 and Solaris 10 Operating System Enable
Breakthrough Performance and Microsecond Processing Time:</b> Sun
Microsystems today announced the release of Sun Java Real-Time System
2.0 (Java RTS), a standards-based extension of the Java platform
designed to help developers gain precise control over their Java
software. This new release combines the power and scalability of the
Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) with the flexibility of the Java
platform to address a growing demand for predictable computing in
industries such as aerospace, financial services and scientific
research.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13677
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Sun Fulfills Promise of Open and Free Java Technology
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<b>Advances OpenJDK Project with New Code, NetBeans Integration,
Governance Board and Availability of Compatibility Tests:</b> Sun
Microsystems today announced the release of a fully buildable Java
Development Kit (JDK) version for Java Platform Standard Edition (Java
SE) to the OpenJDK Community as free software under the GNU General
Public License version two (GPLv2). In addition, Sun announced the
Interim Governing Board for the OpenJDK community. Sun also announced
that OpenJDK-based implementations can use the Java SE 6 Technical
Compatibility Kit (JCK) to establish compatibility with the Java SE 6
specification.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13678
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Credit Suisse Joins OpenFabrics Alliance
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<b>Leading Wall Street Firm Takes a Leadership Role in the Development
of an Open-Source, High-Performance Interconnect Software Stack:L</b>
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA), an industry organization focused on
the development and enterprise adoption of a unified, open-source
software stack for high-performance server and data transport
technologies, today announced that Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS), a leading
global financial services company, will join as a promoting board
member. The addition of Credit Suisse to the Alliance signifies the
growing commercial recognition of the value of a unified software
stack for high-performance network technologies including InfiniBand
and iWARP (RDMA-over-Ethernet) for interconnecting grids of multi-tier
servers and storage.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13679
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Appistry Announces Support for Spring Framework
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<b>Appistry and Interface21 Partner to Simplify Development and
Deployment of Large-Scale, Mission Critical Applications:</b>
Appistry, the pioneer and leading provider of application fabric
software, and Interface21, a provider of open source software for
mission-critical enterprise applications, today announced a strategic
partnership and previewed Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric
(Appistry EAF) for Spring. Appistry EAF for Spring offers a
comprehensive yet easy-to-use solution for reliably scaling out Spring
applications with no code changes. The new offering will provide
Spring customers with the compute and data grid facilities required by
large-scale, mission-critical applications, including those for
high-volume data processing, “real-time” analytics, and enterprise
high-performance computing (HPC).
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13680
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Christopher Smith of Platform Computing Elected VP of Standards for the OGF
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<b>Principal Product Architect for Platform Computing to Oversee
Standardization and Interoperability of Grid Software:</b>
Platform Computing announced today that Christopher Smith, Principal
Product Architect of Platform, has been elected by the Open Grid Forum
(OGF) Board as its Vice President of Standards. OGF is a non-profit
consortium of public and private organizations and individuals
dedicated to accelerating the adoption of grid computing worldwide.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13681
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SGI Reports Q3 Results
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SGI has announced financial results for the third quarter of its
fiscal 2007, ended March 30, 2007. On a GAAP basis, revenue for the
quarter was $111 million and operating loss was $20 million. GAAP
gross margin was 33.0% and operating expenses were $57 million.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13682
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QLogic SANblade HBAs & Microsoft VMM Simplify, Secure the Virtual Data Center
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<b>Server Administrators Can Easily and Quickly Perform Live
Migrations:</b> QLogic has announced that it is working with Microsoft
to integrate N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) technology with
Microsoft’s virtualization management solution, System Center Virtual
Machine Manager. The result is that Virtual Machine Manager, part of
the Microsoft System Center management suite, will have the capability
to create and provision virtual SANblade HBA ports across multiple
physical servers. Storage administrators who deploy Microsoft Virtual
Machine Manager along with QLogic SANblade 2400 Series 4Gb Fibre
Channel HBAs will be able to create virtual machines and ports that
are easier to deploy, manage, and support across a virtualized data
center.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13683
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Mercury Provides Silicon IP to Raytheon for its MONARCH Processor
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<b>New-generation processor can reconfigure itself to optimize
processing on the fly:</b> Mercury Computer Systems announced that it
has provided silicon intellectual property (SIP) to Raytheon Space and
Airborne Systems for the development of the MONARCH (Morphable
Networked Micro-Architecture) fully programmable,
system-on-a-chip-processor.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13684
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Record Establishes Chelsio T3 as Fastest 10gbps Ethernet Adapter for IPv4, IPv6
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Chelsio Communications, Inc., the leading provider of 10-Gigabit
Ethernet unified wire solutions, today announced that the
international team led by the University of Tokyo has set two
consecutive new IPv6 Land Speed Records for Internet2 in the single
stream and multi stream category using Chelsio's high performance 10Gb
Unified Wire Accelerators. With these records, the competition is
effectively closed for IPv6 and IPv4 with all the current single
stream and multi stream records being held by Chelsio's T3.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13685
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Microsoft's Jeff Raikes Declares, 'It's a New Day for Business Intelligence'
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<b>Raikes announces product momentum, strategic alliances and
acquisition at first-ever BI Conference in Seattle.</b> Jeff Raikes,
president of the Microsoft Business Division, today will open the
first Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Conference, with an
overview of new developments to further enable Microsoft Corp.'s
vision and strategy for delivering pervasive BI and performance
management.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13686
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QLogic and Onaro Partner on SAN Assessment Program
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<b>Companies Respond to End User Demand for Better Visibility into
SANs:</b> QLogic and Onaro today announced the two companies have
signed an agreement in which QLogic will license a fully functional
trial version of Onaro SANscreen SME Edition, an innovative
application that allows SAN administrators to achieve real-time
feedback about their SAN infrastructure. The partnership is designed
to benefit the growing number of datacenter customers deploying the
QLogic 10Gb Fibre Channel backbone architecture, by reducing overall
provisioning times, reducing troubleshooting overhead, and improving
capacity planning activities. The partnership is also designed to
drive new business for QLogic channel partners by significantly
increasing their ability to provide value-added services to datacenter
customers.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13687
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Oracle Application Server 10g Outperforms IBM WebSphere & BEA WebLogic
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<b>SPECjAppServer2004 Benchmark Results Demonstrate Oracle's Superior
Per Core Performance:</b> Oracle today announced that Oracle
Application Server 10g, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware,
together with Oracle Database 10g, set a record-breaking result in the
SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark by delivering the
highest performance per core across all platforms and application
servers(1). Surpassing the best per core performance of IBM WebSphere
and BEA WebLogic, these results continue Oracle's excellence in
setting world records in Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
application server benchmarks.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13688
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Oracle Application Server 10g Earns Best Single Node Result for x86 Based System
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<b>Oracle Is the Best in Test for x-86 Class of Servers in
SPECjAppServer2004 Benchmark:</b> Oracle today announced that Oracle
Application Server 10g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware,
together with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Linux, and HP
BladeSystem server blades powered by AMD Opteron processors set a best
in class single node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry
standard benchmark by delivering the highest performance for x86 based
systems. This achievement builds on Oracle's commitment to providing
customers with the highest performing and most scalable Java
Application Server.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13689
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Super Micro Settles Patent Litigation
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Super Micro Computer, a leader in application optimized, high
performance server solutions, announced today that it has settled
litigation between it and Rackable Systems, Inc. The result confirms
the integrity of the design, manufacture and sales of Super Micro’s
full product line. The settlement involves no financial impact on
Super Micro.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13690
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Users Set the Standard
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Today, the 2nd User Forum of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project
opened with keynote presentations from Ian Bird, the manager of the
EGEE Grid infrastructure, and Mark Linesch, the head of the Open Grid
Forum. The User Forum is organized jointly with the OGF20 meeting to
bring current grid users and standards bodies together to ensure that
they speak the same language and that the standards now emerging are
taking into account the experiences of the most challenging
application already successfully using the grid. This common event
also will influence the future evolution of grid usage by scientific,
technical and business communities.
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Call for Papers: Cluster 2007
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<b>Paper submission deadline extended to May 18, 2007. Event Date:
September 17-21, 2007 @ Omni Hotel Downtown Austin, Texas <a
href="http://www.cluster2007.org/">www.cluster2007.org</a></b>
<p>Cluster 2007 welcomes paper and poster submissions on innovative
work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing
original research work in cluster computing.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13692
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LBNL, Vendors Convene to Discuss Grid Computing and 'Going Green'
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On May 16, energy efficiency expert Dale Sartor of Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory (LBNL,) will kickoff Grid Computing: Going Green
While Getting Serious About Secure, Efficient, Cost-Effective IT.
This complimentary breakfast briefing, being held at the Mark Hopkins
InterContinental Hotel, will focus on energy conservation in the data
center and realizing the promise of grid computing.
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SUNET Deploys 10 GbE Nationwide Research & Education Network Using Ciena
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<b>New Ethernet-optimized optical network interconnects 32 Swedish
universities to support bandwidth-intensive research and
collaboration:</b> Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, today
announced that Swedish University Network (SUNET) has successfully
rolled out its new 10-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network, OptoSUNET, using
Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture that includes optical transmission,
multiservice transport, Ethernet services and network management
solutions. Ciena's platforms were deployed as part of a turnkey
solution by Imtech N.V., a pan-European systems integrator and Ciena
Platinum partner.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13694
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Sun Microsystems Previews Latest Milestones In Project Open ESB
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<b>Next Generation Integration Platform Offers Unparalleled
Interoperability; Helps Enable Developers To Realize The Benefits Of A
True Service-Oriented Architecture Without Having To Rely On Closed,
Proprietary Technologies:</b> Sun Microsystems and the Project Open
Enterprise Service Bus (Open ESB) community today announced the next
preview release of Open ESB, the standards-based next generation
integration platform. Open ESB is an industry-leading open sourced
enterprise service bus (ESB) implementation developed under open
community process. The latest release, Open ESB 2.0 Preview, allows
developers to integrate Web services and enterprise applications as
loosely coupled composite applications, thereby making large-scale
implementation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles
manageable in a heterogeneous world.
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Microsoft Announces Latin American Collaborative Research Federation
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<b>“Virtual institute” to advance technology research, create global
awareness and foster opportunities for faculty and students.</b>
Speaking today at the Microsoft Research Third Annual Latin American
Academic Summit in Chile, Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig
Mundie of Microsoft Corp. announced the formation of a new, broad
collaboration among Latin American and Caribbean universities. The
Latin American Collaborative Research Federation will work with
Microsoft Research to explore emerging information and communication
technologies (ICTs) and their applications across the region, with an
eye toward solving important social and economic issues and developing
Latin America’s burgeoning knowledge economy. The three-year project
will receive nearly $1 million in funding along with collaborative
support from Microsoft Research.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13696
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Microsoft SQL Server 'Katmai' Builds on Proven Success of SQL Server 2005
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<b>Vision for next release of SQL Server announced at Microsoft’s
first Business Intelligence Conference.</b> Today at the first
Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Conference, Microsoft Corp.
presented its vision for the next version of its flagship data
management and analysis platform. SQL Server code-named “Katmai,” the
next release of Microsoft SQL Server, will help companies access and
manage rapidly increasing volumes of data for mission-critical
applications, increase their ability to better understand the
organization with business insight, and reduce difficulties associated
with managing complex systems. SQL Server “Katmai” builds on the
success of SQL Server 2005 as a proven platform that is crucial to the
completion of business projects, delivering increased functionality to
a comprehensive range of applications from the desktop to the data
center.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13697
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MSC.Software Reports Q1 Results
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MSC.Software Corporation today announced financial results for the
first quarter ended March 31, 2007. Total revenue for the first
quarter ended March 31, 2007 was $57.6 million compared to $67.4
million for the first quarter last year. Software revenue for the
first quarter totaled $23.0 million compared to $29.3 million for the
first quarter last year. The 2006 first quarter included $1.3 million
of non-recurring PLM software revenue. The PLM business was sold in
March 2006. For the first quarter ended March 31, 2007, maintenance
revenue totaled $28.7 million and services revenue totaled $5.9
million, compared to $27.6 million of maintenance revenue and $10.5
million of services revenue for the first quarter last year. The 2006
quarter included $1.1 million of PLM services revenue.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13698
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Oracle Unveils Next-Generation Architecture for Oracle Fusion Middleware
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<b>Outlines Industry's First Unified Middleware for Grid computing,
SOA, and Event-Driven Architecture:</b> Today at JavaOne, Oracle
unveiled the architecture for its next-generation middleware, which
will support customers' requirements related to modern application
development and deployment. Designed to provide the industry's first
unified infrastructure for Grid computing, Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA), and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), the next
generation of Oracle Fusion Middleware will provide a foundation for
event-driven composite applications and applications with extreme
scalability and performance requirements.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13699
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SOM's Structural Engineering Group Chooses Altair Engineering
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<b>Advanced topology optimization tool streamlines building design
process for global architectural and engineering firm:</b> Altair
Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology and
services that strengthen client innovation and decision-making, today
announced that the Structural Engineering Group of Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill LLP (SOM) has chosen Altair's OptiStruct and other HyperWorks
tools to provide advanced optimization technology for the structural
development of its landmark buildings. The HyperWorks framework, of
which OptiStruct is a part, is an integrated suite of advanced
computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools for product design.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13700
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Case School of Engineering Receives Charles Babbage Grant From Synopsys and HP
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<b>New Lab Dedicated to World-Class Electronic Design Academics and
Advanced Bioengineering Research:</b> Synopsys today announced that
the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, Ohio is the recipient of a Charles Babbage Grant sponsored
by both Synopsys and HP. Through the grant, Case's Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science will receive licenses of
Synopsys' comprehensive electronic design automation (EDA) software
and intellectual property, along with curricula, support and professor
training, and sixteen dual core HP xw4400 Workstations to outfit the
new Synopsys/HP EDA Laboratory.
Full text: http://www.supercomputingonline.com/nl.php?sid=13701
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